"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter," he told the students.

This seriously limits the kinds of applications you can develop on the iPhone. One notable exception, however, is the support for tracking the location of devices, through a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular triangulation.

The Aves Engine is a software development kit to generate spectacular isometric browsergames without the need for third-party plugins like Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flash on the end-user side.

When so many obviously spammy and trademark-infringing apps are getting through, it makes every trivial rejection by real developers even more frustrating.

Subfolio provides an elegant, practical and customizable web interface to your file system. Super fast to set-up and use, you’ll be up and running in minutes. Flexible and feature-rich, you’ll soon be inventing new ways to use it.

Inheritance is built into Chinese. You might as well use it.

Pretty much everyone who claims to have a REST API, in fact, does not. The closest I’ve found is the Sun Cloud API which actually defines a number of custom media types for resources and is discoverable based on a single known end-point. Everyone else, thanks for playing.

Here you will find pointers to manuals, tutorials and references that will come in handy when you feel like coding in Ruby.

Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.

I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts on country roads, so that customers of our iCar may better understand why we don't allow iCars to ever get on country roads.

This thing leaves any other tag-completion method I have ever seen for HTML in the dust. It's light-years beyond anything else I've witnessed -- and autocompletion is something I've looked into deeply, with multiple editors and IDEs.

Rails plugin which adds a convenient way to override attr_accessible protection.... You can mark certain attributes as trusted for different roles.

When I realized what had gone wrong, the light almost blinded me.

Steak is like Cucumber but in plain Ruby.

Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation

I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most step defintions merely create objects for a scenario to chew on.

Next in our series on not shooting yourself in the foot: Doing a sudo shutdown -h now on the main database server right before you head home to cook dinner for six.

Unfortunately vanilla Ruby modules lack support for many idioms popular in modern Ruby. Most importantly, we have become accustomed to composing our classes with meta-programming macros such as has_many, validates_presence_of or after_save. And modules weren't built with macros in mind.

Though we ended up switching to what I consider to be a technically superior product based on simplicity, we arrived there because of poor community interaction on the part of the Bundler developers.